The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Shortly after adding IOTA to its platform, eToro has unveiled a flurry of partnerships with seven premier league teams.

Total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies shot up over $12 million in just over an hour to peak at $222.8 million, before dropping slightly to $291.7 million by press time.

Roid's Google Play Store has recently become a spot for hosting another reported Ethereum scam application, The Next Web reports August 21.

It's an understatement to say the current price of the world's largest cryptocurrency pales when compared to its past glories - at $6,700, bitcoin is down roughly 60 percent from its all-time high.

Vague statements in Chinese mining giant Bitmain Technologies' investor deck ambiguously and potentially misleadingly list investors ahead of its rumored Initial Public Offering.

The U.S. Senate has held a hearing on the energy efficiency of blockchain and similar technologies, according to an announcement published August 21.

PayPal's Venmo is losing favor to Square's cryptocurrency-integrated payments application Cash, according to data collated by Japan's Nomura Instinet and research firm Sensor Tower.

Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has jumped 6.6 percent, pushing prices above $6,600 for the first time in weeks.

The second day of the BlockShow Americas 2018 kicked off with a robust debate on the usefulness of cryptocurrencies between Nouriel Roubini, CEO of Roubini Macro Associates and predictor of the global financial crisis in 2008, also known as 'Dr.Doom,' and Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius Network.

Today, August 21, at BlockShow Americas 2018, speakers at a blockchain-related panel debated the question of the Bitcoin blockchain's decentralization and the benefits of its applications to the global community.

In the face of the market capitalization's nine-month low, the CEO of multi-asset trading giant eToro has spoken positively about the mid-year correction and maintains that demand for Bitcoin has not declined.

WeChat, the 1 billion-user Chinese social media platform developed by Tencent, has reportedly blocked a number of crypto and blockchain related accounts, local financial news outlet Lanjinger reported August 21.

As a pioneer of ASIC mining chips, Bitmain controls approximately 70 percent of the mining chip market and is also responsible for a substantial chunk of Bitcoin's computing power through its mega-mining pools Antpool and BTC.com.

Cryptocurrency exchanges are taking a page from successful stock markets, forming a working group to oversee the unregulated digital asset exchange space, according to Business Insider.

Investment firm DST Global has confirmed that it "Has never invested" into the cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain's pre-IPO in an email to Cointelegraph August 21.

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources asked about the cost of cryptocurrency mining and the opportunities for blockchain in the public sector on Wednesday.

Kelly Registration Systems, the software unit for Kelly Products, a US based agribusiness company, announced the launch of their blockchain based platform to increase transparency in the United States meat industry.

Many have forewarned corruption as the titans of finance more toward institutionalized cryptocurrency, eyeing every new futures contract as a potential to return to the banking practices Bitcoin was created to rise above.

The number of short orders placed on bitcoin is less than 3 percent away - or 1,146 orders - away from setting a new all-time high, according to data from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex.

BlockShow Americas 2018 has started yesterday in Las Vegas, bringing together more than 1,500 attendees and 80 speakers in the crypto and blockchain industries to discuss widely debated topics on the new technology and its impact on the global community.

The Crypto community is increasingly facing tax compliance issues, especially with the American IRS. And without an express crypto-centric amnesty, some people have joined the main IRS offshore amnesty known as the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program.

The crypto markets are somewhat bearish today, August 21, with virtually all of the top twenty coins by market cap seeing losses of 3-6 percent on average, as Coin360 data shows.

The China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute has released its August blockchain ratings, and EOS has landed at the top.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency media accounts in China have been banned on WeChat, the messenger app owned by Tencent.

The volume of the global automotive blockchain market is set to reach $1.6 billion by 2026.

Lawmakers in South Korea began discussing cryptocurrency once more Monday, August 20, in a meeting focusing on ending the country's ICO ban, as well as other topics, Business Korea reports.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced Tuesday that he's now working with investment-focused crypto startup Equi Capital.

eToro, an Israeli-based social trading and multi-asset brokerage company, has revealed that IOTA is now available on its platform.

Tencent Holdings and SoftBank Group are both disputing their involvement in a widely reported pre-IPO investment round for Chinese cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain.

The Canadian government-funded research program Industrial Research Assistance Program is now hosting its own blockchain explorer, according to an official statement on Aug. 20.